Pei Yao's lips twitched: "Just by reading a medical book... you made an old doctor like Dr. Lin suddenly realize something. You really are... amazing."
Pei Yao couldn't help but give Chen Yu a thumbs up in admiration.
Shen Yu was about to say something when a small shout interrupted their conversation.
"Coo coo..."
Pei Yao glanced at the man whose stomach was growling.
This was the first time Shen Yu's stomach had rumbled in front of a woman, and it was Pei Yao. This made him, who was always very particular about etiquette, feel a little embarrassed and turn his head away to look elsewhere. However, the large red patch on the back of his ears betrayed his feelings at that moment.
Pei Yao looked at the boy's slightly red ears, his shy expression making her find it somewhat amusing.
After thinking about it, they realized they hadn't eaten anything since yesterday, so it was normal for them to be hungry. Not to mention Shen Yu, even Pei Yao was feeling a bit nauseous from hunger.
After Pei Yao finished laughing, she looked at him with her eyes crinkling and deliberately asked, "Are you hungry?"
Shen Yu's ears turned red, and he nodded shyly, "Mhm."
Pei Yao chuckled, "Let's go, I'll take you out to buy some good food. I'm hungry too, let's go out and see what we can eat and bring some back for them as well."
Pei Yao figured that Yunniang and the others probably hadn't eaten breakfast either, so she decided to go out and buy some together.
Shen Yu stared blankly at the girl's bright smile for a moment. He hadn't seen such a bright and innocent smile in a long time since the incident at home.
These days, everyone who sees them looks down on them...
Pei Yao left the clinic before him, but seeing that the boy hadn't followed, she went back inside. Shen Yu was still standing there, stunned. Pei Yao called out, "Let's go, aren't you hungry?"
Shen Yu then came to his senses and quickly followed Pei Yao.
After leaving the clinic, the two wandered around the streets. Pei Yao asked someone if there was a morning market nearby.
The girl she had pulled blushed instantly when she looked up and met Shen Yu behind Pei Yao. She then pointed shyly to the alleyway not far away: "There's one in that alley ahead..."
Pei Yao politely thanked her, saying, "Thank you."
"You're welcome~" the girl replied shyly, but her eyes kept wandering over Shen Yu behind Pei Yao.
Pei Yao followed her gaze with a puzzled look, and then met Shen Yu's cold face.
Pei Yao: "..."
Shen Yu didn't even glance at the girl, and followed Pei Yao into the alley ahead.
The girl's gaze followed Shen Yu's figure until he disappeared into the alley not far ahead, before she reluctantly looked away.
Another sister who had just walked away from her looked at her sister with a puzzled expression as she stared blankly into the alley ahead, seemingly lost in thought.
She couldn't help but wave her hand in front of her sisters' eyes: "What's wrong? Is there something over there?"
The woman, who was still captivated by Shen Yu's good looks, turned her gaze away with a hint of regret. Recalling Shen Yu's appearance, she said with some sadness, "There was a very handsome young man just now. I've never seen anyone look like him before."
The woman next to her covered her mouth and chuckled; it turned out she was looking at the handsome man. No wonder.
......
Following the direction the girl had pointed out, Pei Yao entered an alleyway that indeed had many delicious foods. Pei Yao saw a shop selling savory pancakes, bought one for herself, and then looked at Shen Yu following behind her and asked, "What would you like to eat?"
Shen Yu looked at the savory pancake in Pei Yao's hand. He had never eaten this kind of pancake before. He pointed at it and said, "I want to eat this too."
The savory sauce pancake in Pei Yao's hand smelled delicious, making Shen Yu's stomach churn even more.
Pei Yao asked the owner for another serving, then handed her own serving to Shen Yu first: "Eat up."
Shen Yu didn't take it, but pushed the pancake back: "You eat it first."
Pei Yao glanced at him, said nothing, picked up the pancake and took a bite. The pancake wasn't actually very tasty because the dough-making technology of this era wasn't very advanced, so the resulting pancake was quite hard, and the sauce on top was rather simple.
This was just average for Pei Yao, who had been eating quite well lately, but it wasn't inedible. Following the principle of not wasting food, Pei Yao forced herself to continue eating.
Soon after, Shen Yu's piece was ready, and the shopkeeper handed it to him.
Shen Yu ate heartily. He rarely had enough to eat when he was working at the saltworks and mines, and after so long, he had gotten used to it. These not-so-tasty flatbreads were a rare treat for Shen Yu at this moment.
Pei Yao continued to lead Shen Yu around. There were quite a few stalls on both sides of the street, selling all sorts of strange and unusual things.
However, Pei Dalang and the others were patients and could only eat light meals, so Pei Yao ended up buying a few bowls of wontons to take home.
The wontons needed to be cooked, so while they were cooking, Pei Yao paid for them and asked Shen Yu to wait at the wonton shop. She then went to wander around the neighborhood to see if there was a place where she could cook something nice to nourish the patients later.
Pei Yao wandered around the neighborhood and found a place where she could cook for herself, although the environment was rather messy, but it was still usable.
Pei Yao went up to the old woman who was cooking and asked her what was going on. The old woman explained to him that the place was free to use and was built with funds from a very kind person in the city. It was built so that the people who were taking care of patients at the clinic would have a place to cook and heat up their meals.
These people all have sick family members, and it's a time when money is needed everywhere, so they save all their money for their family members' medical treatment. They themselves are reluctant to buy food outside, and they bring their own groceries from home.
Pei Yao glanced around and saw that the people around her were mostly serving ordinary seafood or wild vegetables dug up from the mountains.
Pei Yao dismissed those thoughts. It wasn't that she was narrow-minded; it was simply that this place wasn't suitable for cooking elaborate dishes.
They are easy targets for people's attention.
When she returned, Shen Yu was carrying the wontons that the shopkeeper had made. Pei Yao had given him an extra ten coins as a deposit, so the shopkeeper gave him a bowl to hold the wontons and a few wooden bowls.
They also asked about Pei Yao's location, and said they would send someone to pick it up later.
"Tongrentang, my surname is Pei."
The shopkeeper readily agreed and went back to work.
Shen Yu carried a heavy bowl of wontons, while Pei Yao held several wooden bowls as they walked towards the clinic.
When Pei Yao and the others returned, Qiao Hui and Shen Cong also arrived at Tongrentang. Qiao Hui was sitting next to Shen Jing, wiping away tears. When she saw Pei Yao and Shen Yu return, Qiao Hui wiped away her tears, stood up, and looked at her eldest son.
“Yu’er, look at me, you’ve lost so much weight…” Qiaohui walked over and looked at Shen Yu, her eyes filled with tears.
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